All Posts Tagged With: "sex change"

In Changsha: Demonstration for the right to be a woman

Yesterday morning, two young male to female transsexuals took to the streets of Changsha City, Hunan Province. They carried banners saying: “I want to have a sex change and live my life as a woman” and “Even if I die from it, I want a sex change, one day as a woman would be worth [...]

15Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender city manager lands in Lake Worth

Susan Stanton now has a city to lead. Stanton, who was fired as Largo city manager after her plans to have a sex change operation became public, was hired this week as city manager of Lake Worth. In 2007, Stanton was a finalist for the city manager job in Sarasota. City commissioners instead chose Robert [...]

9Apr2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

1,000 sign up to support four Oxfordshire men who want to become women

By Amanda Williams » A GROUP of men, each of whom wants surgery to become women, is leading a campaign to get the Oxfordshire NHS Primary Care Trust to pay for sex change operations. Last night, almost 1,000 people had signed their petition calling on the trust to change its policy and allow gender reassignment [...]

23Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

A Transitional Dilemma: Some Sex Changes Change Back-Again

by Scott Stiffler EDGE Contributor Mike Penner was what you could call a guy’s guy. A sportswriter for the Los Angeles Times–you can’t get much more macho than that. So it made news across the country when he returned from an extended time-off in April 2007 and returned to the sports desk as Christine Daniels. [...]

18Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Barrie judge rules against transsexual

By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN An inmate who wants the government to pay for a sex change is left in limbo after a judge ruled yesterday in Barrie that the tab should not be paid by the province. “It’s pretty upsetting,” said Shauna Taylor, an inmate at the maximum security Oak Ridge Division of the Penetanguishene Mental [...]

14Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Coed showers going statewide?

Family group says ‘gender identity’ bill threatens women, children A “gender identity” plan for coed showers, locker rooms and other public facilities already implemented in one suburban Maryland county could be going statewide, according to alarmed members of a pro-family organization. Officials with Maryland Citizens for a Responsible Government say a plan is pending in [...]

12Mar2009 | | 1 comment | Continued

Indian city to build toilets for transgender people: report

MUMBAI (AFP) — Pre and post-operative transsexuals in the southern Indian city of Chennai are to get their own public toilets in an effort to boost recognition of the community, a report said Monday. Three toilets are to be built to cater for the sizeable transgender population as part of a pilot project that will [...]

10Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender kids: How young is too young for a sex change?

Erin Carlyle delves into the often blustery worlds of transgender youth By Erin Carlyle ON HER THIRD birthday, Sarah Barnett tore open a package from her grandmother that would delight most girls her age. Gently folded on a pillow of tissue paper lay a frilly, ruffled dress. Sarah looked up at her mother, Kathy, perplexed. [...]

4Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change surgery on transgender

Zubeda Hamid CHENNAI: In a record of sorts, doctors at Government General Hospital here performed a sex change operation on a transgender on Saturday. The transgender (whose name has not been divulged), hailing from Udhagamandalam, wanted an operation that would give him a woman’s genitalia. In a four-hour long procedure performed by a team of [...]

2Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Sex change patient sues doctors

Kate Hagan A MAN who underwent gender reassignment surgery to become a woman — then resumed dressing as a man five years later after deciding the change was “misconceived” — is suing psychiatrists who treated him at Monash Medical Centre’s specialist clinic. In a statement of claim filed with the Supreme Court, the man, 66, [...]

2Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgender vets a hidden population

Men with gender struggles drawn to macho military By Carol Ann Alaimo In a city that prides itself on respect for military veterans, scorn is a fact of life for former Army captain Erin Russ. Neighbors gawk when she takes out the trash. At local malls, teenagers titter and hiss as the strapping ex-infantry officer [...]

22Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Transgendered couple celebrating 40 years of marriage

By MICHELLE BOUDIN / NewsChannel 36 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It’s the story that has everyone talking. A Charlotte woman had a sex change and says the City of Charlotte fired her because of it. “That’s as we exited the sanctuary,” Anne Marie Clukey said as she looked at her wedding pictures. Most couples look different [...]

14Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

City worker claims she was fired because of sex change

CHARLOTTE — A former city operations assistant at a Charlotte maintenance facility has sued the city, claiming she was fired because she had a sex change. Anne Marie Clukey, who worked for the city for nearly two years, said she was fired because she did not conform to her supervisor’s “gender stereotype.” “I have been [...]

12Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Houghton called to resign over transsexual comments

By ADRIAN DARBYSHIRE OUT of common decency, resign! That’s the call from an Isle of Man transsexual after MHK John Houghton sparked outcry in the House of Keys this week with comments condemned by his colleagues as ‘bigoted’ and ‘abhorrent’. His protests that new laws to protect the rights of transsexual people would ‘defy common [...]

12Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

Isle of Man politician compared to Nazis over trans comments

By Staff Writer, PinkNews.co.uk A member of the Isle of Man’s parliament has been accused of using language more akin to the Nazis during a debate about the rights of transexuals. John Houghton, a House of Keys member for Douglas North, spoke out against a gender recognition bill that will bring Isle of Man legislation [...]

11Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

British youth 14 undergoes sex change operation without parent’s approval!

London, UK – Samantha Small lived her whole life wishing to be a boy. She played football, rode a motorcycle, and dressed as boyish as her Mum would allow. Today, Samantha is known simply as ‘Sam’, thanks to a surgeon’s skill at a reknown Danish clinic who, in a slashing 2 hour operation, made her [...]

8Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued

16-Year-Old Undergoes Sex Change

Kim Petras has a lot going on in her life, and she’s only a teenager. She was signed to a record label and released a CD; her first single, “Last Forever,” became popular on MySpace and YouTube; she works as a model; oh, and she also had a sex change. Kim Petras use to be [...]

7Feb2009 | | 10 comments | Continued

Activist urges end to sex change rules

SURASAK GLAHAN Bangkok Post A transgender advocacy group is calling on the Public Health Ministry to revoke the draft Medical Council of Thailand regulation on sex change surgery, saying it violates human rights. “This draft regulation deprives transgender people of their basic rights,” Yollada Suanyot, chairperson of the Transgender Women of Thailand group, said yesterday. [...]

1Feb2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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